Godhumai Karupatti Kolukattai / Kolukattai recipes

Wheat flour – 500g

Coconut – ½

Ghee – 5tbsp

Palm Jaggery – 100g

Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
Dry ginger powder - 1/2 tsp

Method of Preparation

1.   Slightly dry fry the wheat flour in kadai. Fry the coconut gratings as golden colour with ghee.

2.     Mix all ingredients well together and prepare the mixture as soft with little water as like Kolukattai.

3.   Apply little ghee in hands and give the shape as Pidi Kolukattai. Cook it in Idli steamer.

4.     Godhumai Karupatti kolukattai is in delicious taste and flavour, try this one in this Ganesh Chathurthi

BOONDHI KOZHUKATTAI - Ganesh Chathurthi Neivedhyam / Kolukattai recipes

Raw rice flour -  500g

Sweet Boondhi -100g

Sugar – 50g

Coconut, grated – 1

Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp

Ghee – 5tbsp

Method of Preparation

1.  Heat a tbsp of ghee in kadai; slightly fry the coconut in it. Add sweet boondhi,

    sugar and cardamom powder in a bowl; gently mash it all with your hands.

2.    In raw riceflour, add the water and prepare the good kozhukattai dough.

3.  Take a piece of dough, apply little ghee in palm. Keep the piece of kozhukattai dough in your palm and spread it. Keep the sweet boondhi mixture into it and fold it.

4.     Cook it in Idli steamer and serve. 

Kozhukattai – honour of festivals

Kozhukkatai (dumplings) is a godly prasadham to decorate all our beautiful and auspicious moments. We can prepare multiple varieties from few food items but the prepared varieties should be accepted by the people i.e., includes Kozhukattai also.                

                      

It is easier to prepare many tastier varieties out of very few ingredients. We know that there are few nuances in preparing the kozhukattai dough, the taste which you are giving to kozhukattai lies in the dough stability. The dough stability provides extraordinary whitish colour and perfect shape without drift. At present times Kozhukattai is an uncomplicated dish to prepare at home but currently it is fading in the modernism.

Happy to provide the simple Kozhukattai dough preparation and also the basic kozhukattai recipe through this write up. Try to dish out this as Vinayagar Chathurthi special or any auspicious occasion at your home and receive god’s blessings.

Kozhukkatai Dough

Kozhukkatai Rice flour – 2 cup

Salt – ¼ tsp

Oil – 1 tbsp

Tepid water – 1 cup

Sweet stuffing

Jaggery, broken – 100g

Cardamom – ¼ tsp

Coconut, grated – 100g

Channa dal, boiled - 50g

Method

1.Sprinkle water and prepare tough kozhukattai dough. Apply oil and reserve it for sometime.

2.Mix all stuffing ingredients gently. In the meantime, prepare even balls from dough.

3.Apply little oil in your palms and just press the dough. Keep the stuffing in the  pressed dough and cover the balls neatly.

4.Keep the balls in the Idli steamer and steam it for the next 10minutes.

5.Serve the delicious sweet kozhukattai now.